Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth

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Post by danielsamuels » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
publicpolicy.verizon.com

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Post by rnovak » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

They can claim whatever they want, but when you tunnel Netflix traffic through a VPN so all the ISP see's is encrypted traffic and bandwidth issues disappear, it removes all mystery.

I've tried several VPN's to test out my theory, and with each one, as soon as the ISP couldn't inspect traffic, all throttling seem to magically vanish.

considering what we're paying for broadband, we should be getting what we pay for without resorting to obfuscating our data.

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Post by sergiotapia » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:07 PM UTC

It's so strange, I live in Bolivia and Netflix never buffers for me at all. I have a laughable 200kbps real download speed (1768kbps plan) and I only wait for Netflix to load for about 2 seconds on my PS4 and off I go watching on 480SD quality.

I would expect the US to be much much better.

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Post by jflowers45 » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

Let the verbal battle begin!

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Post by wavefunction » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:09 PM UTC

I know who I believe, and it's not Verizon!!!

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Post by dcc1 » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

LOL taking 30 seconds+ to even load their page

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Post by esoterae » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

How apropos that the link is showing unavailable after timeout & errors after only 17 minutes of being posted.

It's definitely not us. Yep. Not it.

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Post by idiot900 » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

A well written PR piece, but no new insights here. Verizon feels it is not Verizon's job as an Internet service provider to provide adequate service to parts of the Internet that its customers are paying them to access.

This wouldn't be a problem if broadband access were actually a competitive market - customers would simply switch to a provider that had taken the initiative to give its customers what they want.

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Post by angersock » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

Somewhat ironically, the page is taking forever to load.

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Post by jrs235 » Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

dcc1 wrote: post #6

LOL taking 30 seconds+ to even load their page

They must be using Netflix's network.